The National Geographic Magazine
These Strollers in Imphal's Main Street Made Their Own Shawls and Skirts
In a typical Manipuri household, all the women help produce cloth. Mother spins the cotton, grandmother bleaches
and stiffens the thread, and daughter weaves.
Major G. F. Heaney (Mondiale)
Hindu Women Selling Clogs Patiently Wait for Customers at Imphal's Bazaar
Before May, 1942, travelers seldom saw and the world scarcely heard of their quiet city. In that month Japanese
fliers bombed Imphal and General Stilwell passed through it on the retreat from Burma.
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